World War, 1939-1945--War work (Civilian)

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[British Columbia Forest Branch / Forest Service collection, reel 68]

Footage. 1. Alternative Service Workers at Green Timbers are shown washing up after a fire, in shack camp, assembling for a meal, and collecting their pay. 2. Sequence on small and portable mills: mill burner; hog fuel; waste; portable mill at work; slab pile; caterpillar tractor and logs; power saw with log carriage.

[Burritt miscellany, reel 3]

Footage. B&W [Agfa]: Dominion Bank building, Vancouver. Colour: shots of Oscar Burritt, Ernie Kirkpatrick and Cliff Bourne (all of Shelly Films staff) clowning around [Kodachrome, edge code 1946]. B&W: footage apparently related to BANSHEES OVER CANADA (produced by Vancouver Motion Pictures for the NFB, 1943), depicting civil defence drills and related activities in Vancouver during WWII [Kodak positive print stock, edge code 1942].

Edra McLeod interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edra McLeod : women drive for BC Electric RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-08-23 SUMMARY: Edra McLeod worked at Boeing during the war to help with the war effort. While the plant was being unionized, she questioned whether or not to join the union. A management lock-out in retaliation for a sit-down by the workers resulted in a victory; one five-minute break each day. Mrs. McLeod's husband was overseas for the duration of the war. She left the aircraft industry to find work with BC Hydro [actually BC Electric] in 1944. Only women whose husbands were overseas and who were under 25 to be hired, as conductors. After the war it took five years for women to be allowed to drive. Out of thirty women drivers, eight stayed on, two for many years. From the beginning women received equal wages to men drivers. Only one woman was heavily involved in the union, but all of the women supported it. Mrs. McLeod consistently pushed for other women to be hired as drivers, participated in the fight for better wages and conditions, and was active on the sick committee. She describes the trauma which many young women experienced during the war as a result of separation from their newlywed husbands.

Heritage theatre : V For Victory : what are you doing to end the war?

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "V F;or Victory: What Are You Doing To End The War?" by Brenda White, looks at activities surrounding the home front during World War II.;

Peggy Kennedy interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Peggy Kennedy : women war workers -- Boeing Aircraft RECORDED: Langley (B.C.), 1979-06-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Peggy Kennedy was born in [Hyder?], Alaska, emigrating to BC and studying at the University of Victoria. After the war was in its third year, she began to work at Boeing Aircraft. She was first a stores clerk and then a secretary to the foreman. She became involved in the union (IAM) and protested the lack of rest periods, participating in a sit-down which led to a lockout. Women at Boeing worked in electrical sub-assembly but not as machinists. Sub-assembly involved putting together a part of an aircraft. Women were working both in the Sea Island plant and the sub-plant of Georgia Street, where Mrs. Kennedy worked. Men and women received equal benefits and were paid for the job but did not receive equal promotion. Many of the women in war production were very young, both single and married, and for many it was their first job. Many women left their children with relatives; childcare was a major problem.. She worked monthly swing shift at Boeing and came to know many of the workers because of her job. She became involved with IAM as a rank and file member and began to write for the newspaper. She became a steward, secretary for the union and editor of the paper. The issues which faced the workers were rest periods, raises, consultation on production, and the abolition of supervision. After the war, both men and women were laid off, despite union efforts to shift the plant to consumer production through lobbies to Victoria and rallies.

Rhona Lucas interview

CALL NUMBER: T2012:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aid to the handicapped PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-25 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2?: Personal background; came to Montreal in 1914, Toronto in 1920, Vancouver in 1927, Hamilton in 1932, Toronto again in 1934 and Vancouver again in 1942. Early education including business courses; working in the business world; working with war service committee from 1940 to 1944; set up first Red Cross unit in church setting; West Vancouver war service committee; encountered working with the handicapped for the first time; started war service committee 1944 to 1946; national employment service contacts; work with handicapped civilians; went to council for the guidance of handicapped from 1946; evolution of the Council for the Guidance of the Handicapped; Vancouver group formed about 1943; Guidance for the Handicapped Council chartered 1946; definition of handicapped person, rehabilitation, community councils and organisations; objectives of the Council for the Handicapped; structure of the council; involvement with the Community Chest and Councils 1952; move to social planning; move to consider whole province, not just Vancouver; objectives. CALL NUMBER: T2012:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aid to the handicapped PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Change from city to provincial focus; problems that still needed to be solved; SPARC dealt mainly with health and the aged. Council projects: handicapped day at the PNE; scope and limitations; of agency services; registration of handicapped persons to identify their needs; retail outlet for home handicrafts; problems encountered by the handicapped; by-laws, etc.; public educational meetings; collecting material for workshop use; publicity; consulting services; newsletters; yearly boat trips; indoor sports club. The briefs and the studies conducted by the Council: architectural barriers; to the handicapped; vocational rehabilitation/service coordination; vocational training/placement of blind students; camping program; study for city centre for the handicapped; consulting committee on vocational rehabilitation; screening applicants (until C.E. Bradbury took over provincially, 1958); adult hearing centre; report on advancement for the deaf; study of disabled allowance; educational and vocational needs of the handicapped; employment of the handicapped; social and employment problems of epileptics. In 1956, dealt with the gasoline tax and motor vehicle taxes (law passed in 1959); report on health services, 1961; reviewed report on neurological facilities. 1965 was the 21st year of the Council. TRACK 2: Reference to the brief that Rhona has compiled over the last 30 years on the history of the Council; brief on handicapped housing ; guide for handicapped housing, resulting in facilities in public buildings; world conference in London, 1957; recreation, working closely with Parks Board; adult handicapped registry expanded in 1960; the basis of voluntary organizations. Projects that the council is still trying to solidify: film on architectural barriers; handicapped housing; brief on orthotics, prostheses, etc.; services directory; vocational needs study re: sheltered workshops and homecrafts. Elements of rehabilitation. Member of the Order of Canada. Closing.